| You know almost nothing about me, and have a cockeyed view of how to gauge hard work, too. No, I have not worked construction or dug ditches. I have, though, worked busy shifts as a dishwasher (among my duties was to bus tables, haul boxes, and clean bathrooms as needed); worked in a grocery/fishmarket, selling fish and vegetables, helping to steam crabs, hauling beer from a truck to a big fridge, and from the storage fridge to the front, and moving other stock; and I used to have to walk all around a college campus picking up mail, haul it to the mailroom to stamp it, take it to the post office, pick up the incoming mail, and deliver sort it for all of the mailboxes. On a hot day, you could work up a good sweat just on all that. But hard work does not require sweat, anyway. Spend hours reading Kant and Hegel; work on an important manuscript for weeks or months; tutor someone in math who has no head for the subject, such that every session is a struggle; there are many kinds of hard work........ |
